census
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According to a 2024 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that used census records, an updated estimate for the number of deaths related to the four-year conflict is 698,000.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
In more recent decades, especially in 2001 and 2011, the census has tracked the modernising economy: commuting patterns, marginal versus main work, education attendance and increasingly detailed disability and fertility data.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
India's 16th census - the eighth since independence in 1947 - will also include caste data and is seen as crucial for policy, welfare delivery and political representation in the world's most populous country.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
These are among the 33 questions that more than a billion Indians will be asked as the country launches the world's largest census on Wednesday, marking the first population count in more than 15 years.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
It was then used in traps set for the males in census operations along the fringe of the insect’s range.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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